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S. G, SCOTT.

SLEEVE BUTTON.

No. 314,618. Patented Mar. 31, 1885.

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SAMUEL O. SCOTT, OF BROOKEYN, NEW YORK.

SLEEVE-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,613, dated March31, 1885.

Application filed November 22, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. Scor'r, a resident of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement inSleeve-Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a side view of my improved sleeve-button, showing the shoefolded flat. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the same, showing the shoefolded together. Fig. 3 is a central section of the button as it isrepresented in Fig. 1, and Fig. i a central section of the same asrepresented in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 isa face view of the button, showing theshoe up. Fig. 6 is a face View of the same, showing the shoe down. Fig.7 is a bottom View of the button as the same is represented in Fig. 1.Fig. 8 is a bottom View of the button as the same is represented in Fig.2. Fig. 9 is a section on the line 0 c, Fig. 3. Fig. 10 is a verticalsection on the line k 70, Fig. 3. Fig. 11 is a vertical section on theline 0 In, Fig. 10. Fig. 12 is a sectional view of an old-style button.

This invention relates to animprovement on the button or stud which isdescribed in Letters Patent No? 248,967, its object being to adapt thebaser metals to the construction of a button of the kind described insaid patent.

I find that in order to make a button like that described in saidLetters Patent, hard solder is necessary for the attachment of thehingepieces to the lower ends of the two-part spring-post, and also forthe attachment of said post to the head of the button. The necessity ofusing hard solder in such a case requires the button to be constructedof fine metal--such as gold-and precludes the manufacture of the samearticle out of base metal, such as brass. This is the fact, because theemployment of hard solder requires so much heat as to take the temperout of the brass or analogous base substance,should it be endeavored tojoin brass by hard solder.

In Fig. 12Ihave shown the hinge-pieces ato be attached to the ends ofthe two-part springpost B by the line b of hard solder, and I also showthe connection of the upper ends of this two-part spring-post with thehead A of the button by the line d of hard solder. The con- (No model.)

struction shown in Fig. 12 is, therefore, of use in manufacturingbuttons of gold or precious metal, but not of use in manufacturingbuttons of less precious metal.

My invention consists in a new form of springpost, whereby I am enabledto connect the hinge-pieces thereto by soft solder, and whereby I amalso enabled to join the head to the spring-post without the use of hardsolder. It may here be well to state that hard solder and soft solderare well known by these terms to jewelers, soft solder requiring lessheat but being less tenacious than hard solder. Yet I produce, throughmy improved construction of the parts, as strong if not a strongerconnection with soft solder than could be produced by means of thehard-solder connection in following the construction shown in Patent No.248,967. I

Referring now to the drawings, so far as the same illustrate myimprovement, the letter D represents the head of my improved button. E Eis the. two-part spring-post; F F, the two-part shoe. Each section ofthe spring post is constructed by being stamped up in a suitable die, soas to form at its lower end a plate or lip, e. r

Fig. 10 shows one of the sections of the post in substantially faceview. Fig. 11 is a crosssection of the same.

The hinge-pieces f f are put upon the lips e e, so as to be supported bythem, and are joined thereto by soft solder, simply to be held in place,not to withstand any strain, for all the strain to which thehinge-pieces are subjected is taken up by the lips e and by the body ofthe post, not by the solder which joins the hinge-pieces to the post.When the hingepieces f f are thus secured on the lips e e, theshoesection F is joined to the post by means of the pin 9. The upperends of the two sections E E of the spring-post are slipped through asleeve, h, which is or may be attached to the lower side of a plate, 6,which constitutes the inner portion of the head D. The upper ends of thesections E E of the spring-post pass through the sleeve h, and alsothrough the plate 2', and are bent apart on top of said plate t',asshown in Figs. 3and 4. After this the covering-plate D, or head proper,is put on the plate t, as indicated. Thus the spring-post is joined tothe head without the necessary employment of solder. The sleeve h is ofsuch length as may be necessary to give the two sections of the post thenecessary spring-action whenever the shoe of the button is folded ortogether.

lhe sleeve h may be attached to theplate i or may be a projection fromthe samesubstance as the plate i, or may be simply slipped around theupper portion of the post.

I claim 1. The post E, constructed with the horizontal lip e, andcombined with the rigid hinge-piecef, which rests on and is soldered tosaid lip, and with the pin g, shoe F, and head D, substantially asherein shown and described.

2. A button constructed of the head D, plate a, sleeve h, two-partspring-post E, having lips e, hingepieces ff, pins 9', and twopart shoeF, substantially as herein shown and described.

SAMUEL C. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

CHARLES G. M. THOMAS, GUSTAV Sonnnrrn.

